UK Tour - A & B Programs

In an earlier post I indicated that we have an A and a B program that serve as the basis for deciding what we are playing in any given concert. The two programs could be called A and 1 in order to avoid any connotation that would indicate that B is an inferior program to A. But it's only an internal reference anyway so why bother?

But some of you band geeks may want to know what is the basic content of the two programs. So, rather that me tell you the exact content of every concert we do on this tour, let me just share with you the content of the two programs:

PROGRAM A

INTRADA ON MONKLAND (Bulla)

JUBILANCE (Himes), soloist - Peggy Thomas

VICTORY FOR ME (Heaton)

I HEAR A VOICE A PRAY-IN’ (Bright)

HE LEADETH ME (Kellner) or GRACE (Hayes)

WALK WITH ME(Steadman-Allan), soloist Brett Tolcher

Testimony

PURCELL VARIATIONS (Downie)

INTERMISSION

VIENNA FANFARE (Strauss/arr. Himes)

SO GLAD (Himes), soloist - Tim Meyer or SWING LOW (Fernie), soloist - Mike Hanton

SOLI DEO GLORIA (Himes)

Scripture

MVT 4 SYMPHONY NUMBER 3 (Giannini, arr. Himes)

STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER (Sousa, arr. Himes)

CHORAL BENEDICTION (Himes)

PROGRAM B

HALLELUJAH (Curnow)

CONCERTINO FOR FLUGEL (Himes), soloist - Beth Cooper

SEIZE THE DAY (Graham) or LET EVERYTHING PRAISE (Cordner)

I HEAR A VOICE A-PRAYIN’ (Bright)

NEAR TO THE HEART (McAfee, arr. Lucas) or MY SIMPLE PRAYER (Little, arr. Lovatt-Cooper, adapted Kane

PRECIOUS LORD (Broughton), soloist - Ben Kinzie

Testimony

TO WORLDS UNKNOWN (Bulla)

INTERMISSION

VIENNA FANFARE (Strauss, arr. Himes)

WE’LL ALL SHOUT HALLELUJAH (Audoire), soloist - Shaun Thomas

YOU RAISE ME UP (Lovland & Graham, arr. Gates) or ARTIST OF MY SOUL (Vale, arr. Himes), soloist- Heidi Strand

THIS I KNOW (Himes)

Scripture

MVT 4 SYMPHONY NUMBER 3 (Giannini, arr. Himes)

STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER (Sousa, arr. Himes)

CHORAL BENEDICTION (Himes)

So, there you have it. But if you come to one of our concerts, please don't hold us to these program layouts. They are almost certainly adjusted each time we play.

Hope to see you there.